Stuff I Love

Here I share my go to resources for healthy foods, favorite products, yoga, ayurveda, massage, acupuncture and everything else that helps me to create a balanced joyful life. This page is always work in process so check back often for more cool finds! Hope you find it helpful in making your road to wellness a bit easier and more fun!

PS: Please share your favorite foods, resources, books, movies and anything that makes your life healthier and happier in the comment section! I love trying new cool things!

Food

• 22 days bars (Daily Mocha Mantra)
• Sea Clear (Fermented Kelp Chlorella Miso) 
• Raw Coconut Truffles 
• Gnosis SuperChoc Raw Bar 
• Ginger Juice by Ginger People
• Marrakech Green Chai - Organic & Fair Trade from SerendipiTea 
• Sprouted chia and flax seeds for smoothies, sauces, and oatmeal
• Cardamon Almond Biscotti by Twin Cake Bakery. Everything else that these girls make is delicious, as well! A perfect nutrient-dense alternative for sugary treats that make you feel guilty.
• Sunflower Flax Snax and other healthy raw treats by Go Raw
• ChocolaTree Raw Macaroons

Kitchen Tools:

• Vita-Mix 
• Cuisinart Kettle with temperature controls I love this kettle for my tea collection . White teas, herbal teas, ayurvedic concoctions – each gets their correct temperature
• Omega Juicer - a present from my boyfriend that is being used every single day. From wheat grass to nut pates – it can do it all!
  

Supplements

• Banyan Botanicals I love Banyan Botanicals for their commitment to bring pure organic herbs to the market. You can read my interview with Scott Tote, the founder of BB here.

Fun Stuff

• Energy Muse
• Conscious box

Body, Hair, and Face Care

• Sundari
• Nasya Oil
• Sesame Oil Vata-balancing, perfect for a bedtime foot massage
• Garden of Life Extra Virgin Coconut Oil After 2011 trip to Kerala, I am obsessed with coconuts. Whole coconuts, coconut water (Harmless Harvest or Exotic Superfoods), and coconut oil. It goes great in high-heat cooking, especially baking.
• Pratima Skincare
• Auromemere Shampoo Aloe Vera Neem - A great ayurvedic shampoo that is a lot cheaper than other ayurvedic brands
  

The Best of Ayurveda on The Web

If you are looking to learn about ayurveda but feel overwhelmed by the abundance of the material online, this list of the best ayurvedic websites will come in handy.

• Joyfulbelly - An ayurvedic website founded by Johm Immel, one of the brightest ayurveda personalities out there. Combining his technological skills and his ayurveda knowledge John created a wonderful go-to resource for anyone interested in the ancient science of life. His website Joyful Belly has everything from dosha tests, to dosha appropriate foods and recipes. John also offers home-made ayurvedic teas and formulas. There are regular tele-seminars and workshops that everyone can sign up for or you can opt for a more personalized skype session with John.
• Fran’s House of Ayurveda – a masterpiece of ayurvedic cooking. A unique feature about the Fran’s website  is that she offers variations to make the dish suitable for each dosha and explains why certain ingredients are better for a specific dosha. Fran also shares some tips of dosha specific yoga poses, meditation, and personal experience with ayurveda.
• Ayurvedic Institute in NM, the home of Dr Vasant Lad
• What’s Your Dosha
• Monica Bloom
• Holistic Online This website offers great dosha tests and ayurvedic diet guidelines
• Life Spa website of John Douillard on ayurveda and general health
• Yoga Chicago – a great yoga, ayurveda, and spirituality resource
• Robert Svoboda
• David Frawley
• Ayurvedic Healers

My Favorite Health, Wellness, and Cooking Websites

• Choosing raw
• Pure2Raw Twins
• One Arab Vegan
• Ohsheglows
• Crazysexylife
• Mindbodygreen One of my favorite resources and websites to write for!
• ModernHippieMag
• Frederic Patenaude
• The Alkaline Diet
• Natural News

Inspiration

Sometimes life gets busy, difficult, and even sad. The good thing that there is always light at the end of the tunnel! I love reading inspirational books, thoughts, and life stories. Happy beautiful images can do the trick, too. If you are an inspiration junkie, check out these websites:
Crazy Sexy Life
The Wellness Warrior
The Kind Life
Tiny Buddha

Favorite Yoga Websites

• Yogajournal
• International Yoga mag
• Integral Yoga Magazine
• Doyogawithme
• Yoga Online
• Yogaglo
• Yogacitynyc.com
• Strala
• Union Backcare

Books

• Omnivores Dilemma
• Thrive
• Conscious Eating by Gabriel Cousins
• Shantaram
• Holy Cow

Movies

• Sick, Fat, and Nearly Dead – watch for free from Hulu
• Beauliful Truth – A great movie about Gerson therapy for cancer. free on youtube
• The Gerson Miracle
• Life In A Day – Director Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland) and producer Ridley Scott (Alien, Gladiator) team up to offer this candid snapshot of a single day on planet Earth. Compiled from over 80,000 YouTube submissions by contributors in 192 countries, Life in a Day presents a microcosmic view of our daily experiences as a global society. From the mundane to the profound, everything has its place as we spend 90 minutes gaining greater insight into the lives of people who may be more like us than we ever suspected, despite the fact that we’re separated by incredible distances. Free youtube movie
• Home – Internationally renowned photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand makes his feature directorial debut with this environmentally conscious documentary produced by Luc Besson, and narrated by Glenn Close. Shot in 54 countries and 120 locations over 217 days, Home presents the many wonders of planet Earth from an entirely aerial perspective. As such, we are afforded the unique opportunity to witness our changing environment from an entirely new vantage point. In our 200,000 years on Earth, humanity has hopelessly upset Mother Nature’s delicate balance. Some experts claim that we have less than ten years to change our patterns of consumption and reverse the trend before the damage is irreversible. Produced to inspire action and encourage thoughtful debate, Home poses the prospect that unless we act quickly, we risk losing the only home we may ever have.
• Earthlings – EARTHLINGS is a feature length documentary about humanity’s absolute dependence on animals (for pets, food, clothing, entertainment, and scientific research) but also illustrates our complete disrespect for these so-called “non-human providers.” The film is narrated by Academy Award nominee Joaquin Phoenix (GLADIATOR) and features music by the critically acclaimed platinum artist Moby. With an in-depth study into pet stores, puppy mills and animals shelters, as well as factory farms, the leather and fur trades, sports and entertainment industries, and finally the medical and scientific profession, EARTHLINGS uses hidden cameras and never before seen footage to chronicle the day-to-day practices of some of the largest industries in the world, all of which rely entirely on animals for profit. Powerful, informative and thought-provoking, EARTHLINGS is by far the most comprehensive documentary ever produced on the correlation between nature, animals, and human economic interests. There are many worthy animal rights films available, but this one transcends the setting. EARTHLINGS cries to be seen. Vimeo

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